Window Cleaning in Sutton Coldfield

Scale, trees and the odd main-road frontage

The problems here come from scale and from trees, with traffic a smaller factor. On a big Four Oaks house the sheer window count is the job: one elevation can carry more glass than a whole terraced house, and the third storey is far beyond anything a household owns. Mature planting counts against you twice, first because it blocks the approach to the wall, and second because overhanging limbs drop sap, leaf tannin and bird mess onto the glass below, which dries as hard spots and keeps coming back through the summer. Nearer Boldmere Road and the Birmingham Road there is ordinary traffic grime on the frontages, and that runs to a different rhythm entirely.

• Three-storey elevations at Four Oaks and Little Aston with borders and shrubs planted right up to the wall
• Window counts on one large Sutton house that run to several terraced houses’ worth
• Sap, leaf tannin and bird mess dropping onto the glass from limbs overhanging the plot, which dries to hard spots
• Leaded lights and original timber casements around Boldmere and Wylde Green needing a gentler pass than modern units
• Traffic grime on the frontages along the Birmingham Road, the Chester Road and Boldmere Road

Pure water to three storeys, with sap spots worked twice

Filtered pure water on a pole, everything from ground level, up to three storeys. On a Sutton plot it is the only sensible option when the ground beneath a gable is a planted border on soft soil. Sutton is on hard South Staffs water, which dries as spots from a tap, so the glass gets filtered water with the minerals taken out, no detergent and no squeegee. Frames, sills and the low transoms are brushed by the pole, and where a frame needs a uPVC cleaner we note it on the quote. Sap and tannin spotting needs dwell rather than force, so those panes are worked twice instead of scrubbed harder. On leaded lights and original timber around Boldmere we drop the pressure and keep water off putty that has already had eighty years of weather.

• Pole worked from the gravel or the lawn, with nothing footed in a planted border under a three-storey gable
• Sap and tannin spots given a second pass with dwell time, because force does not shift them
• Reduced pressure on the leaded lights and original timber around Boldmere and the town centre
• Sills, frames and low transoms brushed by the pole, which on a wide Sutton bay is where most of the visible dirt sits

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: how we do window cleaning, step by step.

Scheduled days, from Boldmere frontages to Four Oaks gables

Sutton bookings go on scheduled days, which can span the whole range of the housing. Small frontages in B72 and B73 around the town centre and Boldmere, then out into B74 and B75 for the Four Oaks and Mere Green houses and, over the boundary, Streetly and Little Aston, where a single property can take as long as an entire street of smaller houses. Access is rarely the obstacle here: side gates, paths and off-street parking are the norm. What we do ask is that the side gate is unbolted, because on these plots the rear elevation is a long way round and there is no other route to it.

Fifty panes between neighbours: pricing Sutton glass

Price follows the number and the type of windows, and Sutton is where that matters most, because two houses on the same road can differ by fifty panes. A large Four Oaks property with three-storey glazing, a garden room and multiple bays prices well above a Boldmere semi, and quoting an area-wide rate would be meaningless to both of us. Height adds time as well. A regular slot on a scheduled Sutton day keeps each visit short, since the glass never gets far behind.

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Six to eight weeks, booked onto set Sutton days

Six to eight weeks suits most Sutton houses and fits the set days we book here. Frontages on the Birmingham Road, the Chester Road and Boldmere Road pick up grime faster and sit better at four to six. Where limbs actually overhang an elevation, expect sap spotting from late spring through the summer whatever the interval, and plan on the shorter cycle from May to September only, going back to the longer one for the rest of the year.